What means
It represents /t͡ʃ/, like the “ch” at the start of “church.”
EC sits in the E row because each row groups letters by the first vowel in their names.
This letter writes Bhumij
Mahendra Nath Sardar developed Ol Onal from 1981–1992 to write Bhumij, a language spoken in eastern India. In 1992, the Odisha Bhumij organization Adim Bhumij Samaj chose it in a contest among three scripts.
The design began with uppercase Ol Onal and lowercase Galang Onal, but teaching and print used uppercase; the lowercase set fell out of use. By 2022, examples also included ritual writing, wedding invitations and public notices.
Why can older Ol Onal text look like Latin?
Early fonts placed Ol Onal in Latin character slots.
Fonts made in 2013–2014 mapped Ol Onal letters to Latin positions, so older files need their matching font; otherwise, Latin characters show instead.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type
𞗫\1E5EBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.